New HDD

[Altamira]

Hi.

Need your help buying a new HDD. Need something like this:

- External Hard Drive
- For Small Office/business
- Portable
- Reliable and Secure from critical data
- Mainly for Text Documents
- To be used as the main storage device
- Dont need much storage capacity since it will be mainly for OpenOffice work
- Below 70 Dollars

Any sugestions?

Thank you

 

[Cerb]

A 64GB USB thumb drive is all that could qualify for all of those. The Sandisk Extreme USB 3.0 are now under $70 for 64GB (59GiB usable). Portable HDD and reliability simply do not go together.

 

[C1]

Go to Newegg and identify a five star full retail boxed HDD. (last I looked NE still sells older pre-flood 250GB and 160GB HDDs rating five stars.)

Put the drive in a five star rated USB enclosure (also rated single USB cable need provides both power and data - no "Y" cable required) and you should be good to go.

Old external IOMEGA drives are great too.

Ive got many many 2.5" drives (IOMEGA, STORIX and ones Ive built/assembled myself to use for everyday work, leisure activities as well as backup. In the many years of use, I have never lost one even though once in a while one gets accidentally dropped (ie, slid) off the top of a computer tower even while running !!! Some of these drives have already logged zillions of running hours too.

 

[Altamira]

But the Sandisk is internal SSD right?

 

[Elixer]

But the Sandisk is internal SSD right?

The Sandisk Extreme USB 3.0 is a USB stick... NOT a SSD per se, yes, it uses NAND like a SSD, but you don't need a external power source like a SSD would need.

And, it is always better to have multiple copies of critical data, since *anything* can fail.